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<blockquote data-quote="RareBreed" data-source="post: 8920804" data-attributes="member: 6945590">I'm not sure how that's a positive for WotC?&nbsp; Can you elaborate?&nbsp; If I were in WotC's shoes, I&nbsp; would want a unified player market, not a divisive one.&nbsp; Those three bullet points I mentioned aren't just bad for the players who want the community to open their arms up again for WotC, it's bad for WotC too.The big question I have is how many other D&amp;D players feel betrayed or at least dismayed that a large number of players don't want to forgive Hasbro/WotC?&nbsp; Is it a small percentage?&nbsp; As large or larger than the number of players who still want to boycott WotC even after their reversal?&nbsp; Somewhere in-between?I also wonder if this will create more bad blood in the future.&nbsp; Not between the players (of either side) and the WotC, but between those who stayed &quot;faithful&quot; to WotC, and those abandon D&amp;D all together.&nbsp; Maybe it will be like the D&amp;D/Pathfinder split?&nbsp; Not exactly acrimonious and bitter, but I think a lot of Pathfinder people never looked back (I could be wrong, I wasn't following the D&amp;D drama that much during the 3.5/4e split days...so that's just my anecdotal take on it).&nbsp; I think the OGL drama was worse though, and the damage might be more costly...or maybe that's just my wishful thinking, hoping a large swath of gamers will discover many new genres and games.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RareBreed, post: 8920804, member: 6945590"] I'm not sure how that's a positive for WotC? Can you elaborate? If I were in WotC's shoes, I would want a unified player market, not a divisive one. Those three bullet points I mentioned aren't just bad for the players who want the community to open their arms up again for WotC, it's bad for WotC too. The big question I have is how many other D&D players feel betrayed or at least dismayed that a large number of players don't want to forgive Hasbro/WotC? Is it a small percentage? As large or larger than the number of players who still want to boycott WotC even after their reversal? Somewhere in-between? I also wonder if this will create more bad blood in the future. Not between the players (of either side) and the WotC, but between those who stayed "faithful" to WotC, and those abandon D&D all together. Maybe it will be like the D&D/Pathfinder split? Not exactly acrimonious and bitter, but I think a lot of Pathfinder people never looked back (I could be wrong, I wasn't following the D&D drama that much during the 3.5/4e split days...so that's just my anecdotal take on it). I think the OGL drama was worse though, and the damage [I]might[/I] be more costly...or maybe that's just my wishful thinking, hoping a large swath of gamers will discover many new genres and games. [/QUOTE]

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